Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation on July 10, 2015 in Prairie View, Texas. As the situation escalated, Bland was arrested and charged with assault. Dashboard video of the event showed Bland was argumentative but non-violent during the incident. She was taken to Waller County jail. Three days later, she was found dead, hanging in her jail cell, a plastic bag wrapped around her neck and tied to a nearby bunk bed.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”. Words to live by in our modern-day world where media faces make up the news and world leaders speak from behind a smokescreen. Case in point – there may be more to last week’s one-in-a-million coincidence where three separate software glitches brought down the Wall Street Journal, United Airlines flight systems, and the New York Stock Exchange – all at the same time. After wiping the sleep from their eyes, many are now wondering if there were more to these cyber incidents than meets the eye.

On two nights in late-December 1980, bizarre lights and mysterious flying objects were witnessed by dozens of military personnel in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the Bentwaters airbase in Suffolk. Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest UFO event is one of the most well-documented and widely-witnessed UFO sightings in modern times. Now a witness to the event, Col Charles Halt, claims he has new evidence in hand supporting military personnel’s claim of the unusual objects they witnessed in Rendlesham Forest.

CCTV footage of a ghostly pirate apparition moving through a bar in Warrington (Cheshire, England) is causing a stir in the ghost community. The CCTV video was shot in the Dreamwater Lounge in the city centre area of Warrington. Simon Ellison, owner of the shipwreck-themed wine bar, says the footage is legit although the version that leaked online was edited to include segments of daytime customers and a rainy night – which only add to the spookiness effect.

LA police are looking for a driver and his female cohort who were filmed speeding backward for miles through the heart of Los Angeles, California. Police say reports of the hair-raising stunt began pouring in from stunned onlookers on Thursday afternoon. Video shows the driver, who was piloting an Audi with dealer plates, swerving in reverse around sharp bends on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, down Mulholland Drive, and onto Sunset Boulevard.

A cache of unusual UFO images reportedly taken in March 1971 have UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists in a frenzy. The images were taken near the Arctic, likely from the USS Trepang submarine as it travelled between Iceland and Norway’s Jan Mayen Island, and released anonymous by an ex-military man believed to have been aboard the submarine when the pictures were taken. The pictures were send with a brief background stating the pictures were taken when the submarine came upon the objects by “accident” as they were in the region on a routine joint military and scientific expedition.

For all intents and purposes, you would assume this mysterious globe of light captured on CCTV video, was a rare but explainable case of ball lightning. Trouble is, the locals reported the weather was clear with not a lightning storm in sight. Rabbi Michael Oishie discovered the oddity when reviewing CCTV footage taken at his synagogue. Unable to discern what the strange floating globe was, he shared the video on Facebook with this message.

Scientists were baffled when they were first spotted in 2004 and as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft probe draws nearer to the dwarf planet, the Ceres Lights mystery grows deeper. The photo above shows the striking similarity between the Ceres Lights and earthly lights photographed from space (Las Vegas in the example above).

It exists in the deepest darkest corner of the web, the Dark Web, a hidden, encrypted part of the Internet only accessible through Tor. Its intent that is not entirely clear. Is it a sick form of gambling entertainment or is it a marketplace providing and anonymous bidding service for hired killers? Assassination Market claims to be a “prediction market” where any party can place a bid on the date of death of a given individual. The catch is this – if you guess the date correctly, you take home all of the funds in the “dead pool”.

Police now believe several unsolved Colorado shootings are related and that a single serial killer is on the loose and beginning to gain steam. Thus far there have been no witnesses to the attack. Police and the FBI refused to comment on the possibility of a serial shooter. But they have offered a $10,000 reward for information.

Real or fake? Below are a collection of historic photos, some whimsical, some shocking, some sad – all unusual and thought provoking. Many are believed to be genuine historical records of the events that unfolded while some will debate the authenticity of a few of these. I’ll leave it to the readers to make up their own minds.

The horrors of humanity and fragility of the human mind often make for the most bizarre and heart-wrenching stories imaginable. Such was the case today in La Plata, Maryland where police say they received a phone call just before 7:00 AM saying that a woman was at the park pushing a toddler “for an unusually long period of time”. As it turns out, the woman had been pushing the toddler in the swing, nonstop, throughout the night.

I’ve written several times about the mysterious sound phenomena occurring throughout the world where an inexplicable noise echoes through a region, sometimes lasting for several minutes, with no visible explanation as to the cause. Witnesses say the volume ranges from mild to deafening and describe the sound variously as a metallic-type groaning, the sound of a cacophony of orchestra horns, a loud humming, and the blare of a thousand trumpets.

In 2009, a New Mexico millionaire gave the world a fascinating puzzle when he hid a treasure estimated to be worth between $1-5 million dollars and provided a cryptic poem full of clues hinting at its location. Tens of thousands have trekked through Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming in search of Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure. To date, the location of the treasure remains a mystery, despite a plethora of clues pointing to its location.

The rumors began on March 13, 2015 when U.S. citizens first learned about the shadowy military operation known as Jade Helm (or Jade Helm 15). Never before has a drill of this scope and magnitude taken place on US sovereign soil and detractors find federal military personnel operating covertly in American cities throughout the southwest USA alarming and cite plenty of reasons to suspect there is more to the Jade Helm operation than meets the eye.

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